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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Intimesstation
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His intimesstation of uncontrollable gas had become a black cloud in their relationship.
Etymology: intimate + mess + irritation
Dearthquirk
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: derth-kwirk
Sentence: I really will have to leave him, she thought, as he scratchd his arse for the third time in as many minutes
Etymology: dearth = lack of appeal (my definition, so there!) and quirk.
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COMMENTS:
ummm, could you use it in a sentence? - Alchemist, 2007-02-15: 22:41:00
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Relationbug
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug
Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!
Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.
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COMMENTS:
I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00
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Cattribute
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kat trib yewt
Sentence: When Jimmy Rattner met Catrina, he thought her devotion to cats was cute. One of her main cattributes was wearing jewellery, clothing, hair accessories, purses and shoes with cat designs on them. After never seeing her in anything but cat couture, he started to grow tired of it all. She finally invited him in for a coffee & a KitKat, only for him to discover her other cattribute was to own 20 cats in a one-bedroom apartment. So used his main rattribute and ran out on her without a word, never to call again. Rats! she thought...Cat must have got his tongue.
Etymology: Cat (feline mammal) & Attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Stoppit
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: sto-pit
Sentence: The only thing more annoying that his little stoppit -- he would continually jiggle in his chair like a little Bill Gates -- was his wife yelling "stoppit" every time she saw him do it.
Etymology: stop+it
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:43:00
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Endearaffront
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: en-DEER-a-front
Sentence: Connie's neighing laugh had at first seemed endearing, but Jerry was so endearaffronted by it that he was planning to desert her.
Etymology: endear (attract) + affront (offense) + Ends here (it's all over as of now)
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COMMENTS:
Better late than never - petaj, 2007-02-16: 02:12:00
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Divugnance
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.
Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.
Vexclination
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: vex-clin-a-ashun
Sentence: His vexclinations make him near insufferable.
Etymology: from vex + inclination
Endearmental
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: enn deeer ment ahl
Sentence: his enderment finally drove her endearmental. She put the bear trap in her (large)Armani bag, before heading out to the disco. "Tonight will be the last time he grabs his crotch when they play Michael Jackson" she promised herself,
Etymology: endearment mental
Tickleme
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'tik-&l-"mE/
Sentence: While the toddler quickly learned that affecting a lisp was a good way to get adults to do what she wanted, it wasn't until long after it started having the opposite effect that she realized it for the tickleme it was.
Etymology: As in the "Tickle-me Elmo" doll. Some (not all) may have found it once cute, but no talking toy with less than a 50-sentence vocabulary can help but become annoying after awhile.
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.